Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy

Dust Jacket by Dave McKean
Interior color plates by Vincent Chong (Limited and Lettered Edition)

This Title Replaced The Best of Subterranean Press on Subterranean Press' schedule. While attempting to select stories for that volume, they decided instead to look to the future with an original anthology

Fantasy comes in all shades, from gentle tales of elves and fairies, to the blackest of horrors. Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy tends toward the darker edges, where the fantastic mixes with the horrific. With all original tales by a number of SubPress favorites, and writers new to their stable, they have aimed to illuminate these shadowed corners, to bring into the light the creatures that venture forth from the sea, those that alter our reality to suit their sinister needs, and others who head into territory so bleak it’s best left undescribed.

Accompanying Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy will be an exclusive chapbook of one of Joe Hill’s signature tales, “Thumbprint,” thus far only available in the excellent UK magazine, Postscripts.

Vincent Chong will be supplying a suitably atmospheric cover for this 10,000 word story.

Table of Contents:

• “Caverns of Mystery” by Kage Baker
• “The Gulf” by Poppy Z. Brite
• “Face” by Mike Carey
• “Thumbprint” by Joe Hill (a separate chapbook)
• "The Steam Dancer" by Caitlin R. Kiernan
• “It Washed Up” by Joe R. Lansdale
• “The Hour of Babel” by Tim Powers
• “Alastair Baffles Emporium of Wonders” by Mike Resnick
• “The Lunatic Miss Teak” by Darren Speegle
• “Penguins of the Apocalypse” by William Browning Spencer
• “Monstrous Embrace” by Rachel Swirsky

Trade: Fully cloth bound edition 

Limited: Bound in leather and cloth, housed in a custom slipcase, with three full color plates, signed by most contributors and sold out pre-publication with signed copy of Thumbprint